Notes on Electrification

Written:Written in February 1921Published:First published: 1—in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV; 2—in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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Significanceof Electrification

1.Moderntechnics.

2.Restorationof productive forces. Increasing them.

3.Centralisation-maximum.

4.Communism=Soviet power + electrification.

5.Generalintegrated plan: focussing the people’s
attention and energies.

6.Raisingculture (of the working people).

6.Notsimple literacy.

TowardsElectrification

1)Decreeendorsing the plan ....

2)Mobilisationof technical forces.

{Assemblingboth electrical engineering and labour
forces.Utilisation of stations.Agitation and propaganda.Teaching of theoretical and practical knowledge about electricity.

3)Decreeon GOELRO.

4)Decreeon Engineering Department ....

5)Decreeon All-Russia Electrical Engineering Congress.

6)Petrograd.Coal from abroad via Murmansk.